Like the article mentions, PSO was released on the Dreamcast, and had an MMO component.

Not sure what this would have done different?

I used to love ‘the cloud’. Rather, a specific slice of it.

I worked almost exclusively on AppEngine, it was simple. You uploaded a zip of your code to appengine and it ran it at near infinite scale. They gave you a queue, a database, a volatile cache, and some other gizmos. It was so simple you’d struggle to fuck it up really.

It was easy, it was simple, and it worked for my clients who had 10 DAU, and my clients who had 5 million DAU. Costs scaled nearly linearly, and for my hobby projects that had 0 DAU, the costs were comparable.

Then something happened and it slowly became complicated. The rest of the GCP cloud crept in and after spending a term with a client who didn’t use “the cloud” I came back to it and had to relearn nearly everything.

Pretty much all of the companies I’ve worked for could be run on early AppEngine. Nobody has needed anything more than it, and I’m confident the only reason they had more was because tech is like water. You need to put it in a bucket or it goes everywhere.

Give me my AppEngine back. It allowed me to focus on my (or my clients) problems. Not the ones that come with the platform.

I doubt it’s /just/ smoke ventilation. Sure, it’s primarily there for fire safety.

But it probably provides ambient ventilation for the tunnel too. Tunnels with trains get hot. Most things, living or inanimate don’t like heat.

And if it’s always ventilating, it’s also might be expelling brake and metal dust from passing trains.

But all speculation. I’m not a train engineer, so I’m probably wrong.

He was a shareholder and board member too. He 100% was an instigator.

I worked for a tech company that went through an acquisition. The GM for my department knew what was up and insulated everyone from it.

6 months later, redundencies for every department but ours.

He also just told us what he wanted, and not how he wanted things done. Probably one of my best bosses tbh.

I should probably be doing it anyway, but back to wearing masks in store.

It’ll most likely mean the people running stuff in the background. payroll, asset management and purchasing, IT staff, etc.

These people will have an impact on ‘crime fighting’, but marginally. Eg. If there’s a problem with payroll it might mean the police officers are paid a day or two late. Or maybe office supplies aren’t kept well stocked in station.

But it might also be anyone who’s not an “officer”. So police station support/maintenance, mechanics, analysts (people who help the police analyse gathered intelligence), 111 operators, etc.

This would probably have significant impacts on ‘crime fighting’. 500 extra police isn’t going to be as effective if police cars are broken, intelligence isn’t accurate, or there’s a wait time on 111.

As other have said, Banning felons from voting is a tool that can be used by oppressors to block their political rivals from standing against them.

Which ironically is something the Republicans are probably wanting to do at some point in the future.

Mercator have the ikku range of zigbee switches.

I can’t say they’re great as they’re capacitive, and the no-neutral ones I’ve got give up pretty quickly.

But they do up to 6(?) gang. … if you can find them (you probably need to get them from Aus)

Honestly AS/NZ standards are shiiit. If only for having smart things that probably won’t burn your house down, and if they do it’s (less) your fault.

$5 that this is all fluff.

They’ll “set up the framework” and then not use it.

“Ah yeah, Australian building standards far exceed ours in most metrics, but none of it’s been … uh … earthquake tested. Yes! None of its been earthquake tested. So … no”

Then labour will come in, start to actually use it, and when we flip flop back to National, finger point, blame, and retroactively tear it all down. Then anyone with Australian building materials in their house get their insurance claims denied or something equally absurd.

There are still servers?!

Some tradies working on a site near me do it to give a bit of warning around a corner.

They don’t actually put the cone around the corner and it’s a bit pointless, but the sign they hang off it shows the intent.

Yeah. I’ve had employees go through mental health episodes, families with cancer, flus, sick kids, multi-week migraines, list goes on.

Not once has the business gone “why have you approved all that sick leave?” In fact it’s been the opposite in some cases “why are you asking me this? We have unlimited sick leave”.

Maybe next year we’ll see “hot cross dinner rolls” at countdown.

What even is a hot cross bun? The lines blur every year.

At what point does “brioche with chocolate chips” become a hot crossy?

I’d argue never. It’s not a spiced and fruited bun with a cross. The supermarkets on the other hand will want you to believe it’s a bun with a cross on it sold between December and May.

Orrrrr. Just allow unlimited sick leave (within reason)? Works in other countries, and some NZ companies provide it, why can’t it be universal?

It’s bizarre that we went through (and still are going through sorta) a global pandemic that can knock you out for weeks, is highly contagious and you can get multiple times a year. Yet we’re cracking down on WFH and still only have a legal minimum of 10 days sick leave.

Yep, let’s keep lowering the bar on “rich” so the actual rich can hide away while we start to attack our neighbours and friends who more than likely got a little lucky once.

I’m not saying FHBs are “poor”. Yes, they’re better off than most. But I don’t think lumping them in with the “rich” is fair. They’re not buying Maseratis, or building a property portfolio, or sitting pretty on 500k CEO salaries.

Supermarkets behaving badly? In New Zealand? Well I never.

Just straight up skipped a step in “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”

They’re everywhere in New Zealand.